. Electrical world. New Vesuvius Ry. | | Electric Street - Naplss-R.,na) Circumvesuviana (Under Construction) Scale l::iou,ouo FIG. 2.—M.\P OF MT. VESUVIUS ELECTRIC RAILWAV LINE. radius is 164 ft. The second section, as stated, is a rack road, andruns from the power house to the observatory. Its length is aboutI mile and its highest point nearly 1,950 ft. above the sea. The thirdsection is an ordinary electric railway, similar to the first, and is long. The roadbed in general is built in accordance with thepractice adopted on the later Swiss mountain railways. From Pugliano the l
. Electrical world. New Vesuvius Ry. | | Electric Street - Naplss-R.,na) Circumvesuviana (Under Construction) Scale l::iou,ouo FIG. 2.—M.\P OF MT. VESUVIUS ELECTRIC RAILWAV LINE. radius is 164 ft. The second section, as stated, is a rack road, andruns from the power house to the observatory. Its length is aboutI mile and its highest point nearly 1,950 ft. above the sea. The thirdsection is an ordinary electric railway, similar to the first, and is long. The roadbed in general is built in accordance with thepractice adopted on the later Swiss mountain railways. From Pugliano the line traverses a very fertile agricultural district,and just before reaching the rack road passes through a numberof petrified lava streams. The first station, San Vito, is in the middleof the garden district, about .87 mile from the beginning of the this point the railway runs for miles in an almost straightline to the rack road. The lower portion of the latter road passes. Fig. I.—General \ie\\ uf All. \ tsLvius; Electkic Kailuav kn ihe Fuklgkul nd. operate both of these divisions by an electric railway. For the sectionbetween the power station and the observatory a rack road waschosen, as that division includes grades as high as 25 per cent. Onthis division the motor car of the electric railway is hauled by an through inhabited territory, but soon enters a large forest, from whichit does not emerge until it reaches the observatory. The observatoryrailway station lies very near the large hotel which has been builtat this point by Messrs. Cook. There is also close to the station a ELECTRICAL WORLD and ENGINEER. Vol. XLIII, Xo. 19. little chapel and park. From this station the line is again of theordinary electric raihvaj construction, and traverses a distance ofapproximately miles before reaching the lower station of the oldcable track construction of the electric line consists of rails in.
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